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Historians describe the trouble Kennedy would have faced in building consensus in Congress had he continued on for another term. Rather, Lyndon B. Johnson gets credit for pushing through the landmark civil rights and poverty-busting legislation of the s.
When the time traveler returns to the present, he discovers the Civil Rights Act never passed. Kennedy won election by preying on fears of nuclear war, some have argued. But just before his death, the president pushed for a limited ban on nuclear weapons. Would there be people on Mars by now if Kennedy had lived beyond ? In the science fiction novel "Voyage" Harper Collins, , by Stephen Baxter, the United States lands people on Mars in , after Kennedy survives his assassination attempt.
Another twist: All of the Apollo missions beyond Apollo 14 were cancelled. He would have done almost squat for civil rights. Again a posthumous Camelot afterglow assumes JFK would have taken the initiative on the issue.
Nixon would have pursued and probably won the Republican nomination. After his second defeat by JFK, he would have really retired from politics and written several books about foreign affairs and policy issues and been greatly respected as a man who could have been a great president. John Jr. At 66 I remember it well — I was a junior in high school and the announcement over the PA system still rings in my ears.
I think the hippies had a lot more to do with that. It was the hippies that scared the hell out of America and it was the war in Vietnam that created the hippies. Free love coincided with birth control pills.
The hippies scared the hell out of a still basically Calvinist country.. Coda: I was a hippy in the late 60s and early 70s. I had a forty year break when I wore gray pinstripe suits and flew in corporate jets. For the last 10 years I have rediscovered my inner hippy. While it was a bit before my time, I had heard that most people originally regarded the hippies as silly and amusing, it was only after the Charles Manson killings that attitudes toward them got worse.
I definitely think that had Kennedy lived, there would have been very little progress on the civil rights issue. The more interesting question to me is what would have happened if the Democrats had not self-destructed in Without that mess, I think Humphrey would have won, which means no Nixon. Without Nixon, there would be no Carter, and perhaps no Reagan. Nether of these had any thing to do with who ever was in the WH or what party was running things.
Peak oil was a geological fact and taking the US off the gold standard was baked into the cake by the post-war economic policies of the US. As early as economists were pointing out that there were too many dollars floating around the world for the amount of gold and some day either the dollars had to stop flowing and go back home or the gold standard had to be dumped.
Who ever had the WH in 76 was going to lose it in One thing that would have been different though, without Watergate, there is no dem landslides in Which means the politics of the last 30 years would have been very different.
Following Dougs timeline, the conservative movement which started with Goldwater would have died in Reagans second term when the economy imploded. Welcome to the Neo-New Deal. It was the drugs and free love that freaked people out.. The problem with JFK academia currently is this, at least in my opinion: anything that favors JFK gets tainted by the Conspiracy nuts, or is perceived to be tainted by the conspiracy nuts and thus often times, as seen somewhat here, it is discounted.
That leads to a counter reaction where JFK is condemned as many things: a hawk who would have gone into Vietnam, brash, against Civil Rights, and so on. The Camelot myth as being one of a perfect era should be overcome, but replacing it with a picture of JFK as those who condemn Kennedy have is misguided, if not totally dishonest, and academically dangerous the consensus is a powerful tool, and a wrong consensus is still widely believed in spite of its falsehood.
Kennedy certainly was not perfect, nor was his administration, but to attach undue failings to him and his administration and to condemn it on the basis of false assumptions is wrong. Kennedy was not brash nor a hawk, and especially not more so than Johnson.
JFK was, above all, a pragmatist, and a man who believed in diplomacy before brash action. This is why Kennedy frequently clashed with those like Curtis LeMay and other military men who asked him, such as in instances as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to use military force.
A hawk, as counter-myth holds him to be, would have been in favor of such action. Kennedy was asked many times to commit the United States to Vietnam with active military units; not just advisers, as had been there since Eisenhower, but with American soldiers to fight the Communists. Kennedy did not believe the United States should make Vietnam its war, and was wary of such a thing, and fearful that the United States would be committing itself to something where the South would keep asking for more and more.
I also suspect Johnson was a bit ignorant in his actions, given that he did have trepidation, but believed that maybe he could scare the Viet Cong into submission with American might. Of that percent that did, most expected ceasefire or for Saigon to fall shortly thereafter. Kennedy would have likely avoided Vietnam as an American war, due to his nature and circumstances which would not have pressed him into it, as much as Nixon would have avoided the war had he won in , as would I dare say most people if they had won in Perhaps LBJ, too, if he had won in and had overseen the situation longer to have a more level headed course set for the United States in Southeast Asia.
On Civil Rights, Kennedy did drag his feet on the matter. However, I must say that the idea of JFK, the Anti-Civil Rightist or JFK, the man who would not act, ignores something which is prevalent in history, but is too often ignored in counterfactuals, which is that people do develop and change over time. It was in , though, that his opinion did come around to that comprehensive action did need to be taken as soon as possible, which lead him to propose what would become the Civil Rights Act of under LBJ.
To show you the opinion on Kennedy in contemporary times, by the way, many in the black community feared that when JFK was assassinated, his Civil Rights proposals died with him, and were very happy when they saw that Johnson managed to get Civil Rights through Congress. So had Kennedy lived, you would have seen him trying to get a Civil Rights act passed.
The largest issue here, however, is getting it passed through Congress. I do recall reading, however, that the people involved were already in majority agreement to get it passed, so it likely would have passed regardless. You still wind up with Hippies, Free Love, and all that since society is still progressing; any militancy would arise from difficulty in getting black equality even after Civil Rights, without Vietnam to exacerbate it and raise it in other areas.
Kennedy actually had a few things he was working on, such as detente with the Soviets or at least improved relations and rapprochement with Castro there were actually back channels between Kennedy and Castro going on discussing Cuba leaving the Soviet sphere and the US opening relations with them as a result.
Kennedy lost faith in getting rid of Castro, and Castro grew tired of the Soviets. It certainly would have lined up well with the aforementioned proposals. In , RFK likely does not run given he would not have left the Cabinet perhaps he runs for elective office that year or later, however. I have doubts on LBJ given his age. The Republicans could nominate Richard Nixon, who had as much chance of rising from the ashes as he did in actual history.
From onward, and who wins it, who knows what would happen. To dispel two rumors in closing, had Kennedy lived, you would not have seen the United States work with the USSR in a joint effort to land a man on the Moon. Kennedy was working on getting that overturned until he was assassinated, but even if he survived, I doubt it was feasible.
Second, Kennedy was not a space nut, and had little special concern for space. He viewed the Moon race as something that the United States could use either to beat the Soviets and show American prowess, thus raising national prestige in the Cold War, or as something where the US could work with the Soviets and thus foster cooperation between the Superpowers.
In , Kennedy would have won handily. Goldwater was the arch-Conservative in the age of the Liberal Consensus, where Conservative was a four letter word and Goldwater was Mr. Share this article Share. Kennedy becomes president - 8 November A well-organised campaign and support from Lyndon B Johnson sees Kennedy defeat Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the presidential election, to become the 35th president of the United States of America.
Peace Corps created - 1 March Executive Order establishes this volunteer US programme to promote relations between America and the rest of the world.
US-Soviet tensions ease - With JFK holding back from further involvement in Vietnam and avoiding war with the North Vietnamese completely, talks open between the two major players in the Cold War and tensions ease. Kennedy dies - JFK is in poor health by the end of his second term. Share or comment on this article: 'What if JFK wasn't assassinated?
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